Scientists have decoded the genome of Panamanian leaf-cutting ants, well-known fact that they cultivate themselves to eat mushrooms. Experts expected to find at least some genetic characteristics that determine the ability of insects to agriculture, but ...

Scientists have shown that dinosaurs were Stegoceras validum most suitable for bodaniya animals. The work of researchers published in the journal PLoS ONE, and short of it writes portal LiveScience. Lived on Earth about 72 million ...

Astronomers have determined the exact distance to the object Cygnus X-1, which was the first site, recognized by the black hole. As many as three scientists' work accepted for publication in the Journal of The Astrophysical ...

Edwin Hubble was accused that he had deliberately obstructed the publication of articles of other astronomers who come to the same conclusions as the Hubble itself. Relevant findings of several astronomers and amateur historian leads portal ...

Australian astronomers have found the record failed in the motion of the pulsar, that is unexplainable abrupt change in speed. Preprint of the paper is available at arXiv.org. The champion was the pulsar J1718-3718, discovered in ...

Deputy Head of Federal Space Agency Anatoly Shilov was reprimanded by the government for the mistakes when you create multiple spacecraft. The corresponding order cabinet was published in the bank regulatory and administrative acts, RIA Novosti ...

In singing of birds has an equivalent grammar of human speech, and birds are very responsive to their violation. Such a conclusion is a team of scientists has presented in his article in the journal Nature ...

National Indian Foundation of Brazil announced the discovery in the Amazonian forests of another savage tribe that never in contact with civilization. Traces of the tribe were detected by the satellite, which is found on the ...

Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory issued a snapshot of the nebula around the star Betelgeuse. Picture in high resolution can be found here. Black circle in the picture is locked, the brightest part of the ...

Astronomers have discovered the details of forming a cluster of galaxies Abell 2744. The observation of this object using several telescopes, operating in different spectral bands, allowed the scientists to determine that the cluster Abell 2744 ...